Having a chronic illness can be quite frustrating. I started out decorating on Monday and was very enthuiastic about it. By evening I knew I had done too much (which was not that much at all). I was sick in bed all day yesterday - except for an ill fated trip to lunch with two friends. You know I am pretty ill when I am too sick to blog!
I finished my Nativity Room so I decided to take a break and snap some photos:
My Christmas Characters are all lined up autitioning for spots in the house:
Except for 'Swedish Santa' (we bought him in Sweden). I already know where he lives:
More on my Christmas Characters to come later...
Except for 'Swedish Santa' (we bought him in Sweden). I already know where he lives:
More on my Christmas Characters to come later...
8 comments:
I'm sorry you've been out of commission. I hope you can get your decorating done.
I love your nativities. I love that they run the gamut from Playmobil to hand carved!
And I may come steal your Swedish Santa. He is great!
In recent years i have started to collect nativities. I like the idea of having a nativity room.
I'm sorry you have been feeling bad. Since compliments always make me feel slightly better for at least a few seconds, let me just say that you have such beautiful things! It's such a neat collection you have accumulated. I wish I was as bundled as your Swedish Santa on a day like today!
i love all your beautiful decorations! you must have gotten them in norway or other parts of europe. somehow they just dont look american. they look very scandanavian actually. i would love to see all your decorations sometime. no pressure. im so sorry that you arent feeling well. i know youve said but i cant remember (its the grandmother in me... im
getting old) what is it that you suffer with? i remember you saying something about feeling bad that you couldnt even clean your own house and had a maid. hey... i have a maid too and the only thing wrong with me is im bipolar, ocd, and have an anxiety disorder. i say only but that can be a lot though at times but some people dont see it that way. its not a physical illness like yours.
steve just likes the house to be clean and so he lets me have a maid. i also remember what you said about having to clean before the maid comes. i pick up and put away all morning until she gets there!
i have a santa collection and usually dont ever get it out because its too much trouble. so dont feel bad! im thinking about doing it this year though for my grandson! having grandchildren changes a lot of things! i used to do all these things when my kids were little!
When Ryan was 2 years old I got really ill. Weeks later they learned that it was mono - the Epstein Barr strain. I just never got better and years and a ton of doctors later I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is now called CFIDS - an acronym for Chronic Fatigue IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION Syndrome since the other inferred you were just a wee bit tired. As the new name suggests, my immune system is not up to par. I see an Aids specialist since both illnesses have a low T cell count. It was the first doctor that could show me that I had serious problems and not just send me to a psychiatrist since they could not figure out what was going on so assumed it was all in my head. Then in 2000 I contracted Lyme Disease and since I am in pain and sick all the time (think of having the flu ... all the time - that is what I feel like unless it flares up and I feel worse) I didn't get tested for it until our wonderful Stake President at the time President Crane called my husband and said I should be tested for it. I was tested and was in very late stage Lyme disease - and where as the spirochetes normally attack the nervous system, they had attacked my joints so I have severe arthritis. They put me on a very strong dose of IV antibiotics until it was too much for my system and I went into anaphylactic shock then started me on very large doses of oral antibiotics which ate away my stomach lining. I have had problems with that ever since. I throw up a lot and then become dehydrated. So a bunch of things - just limits what I can do and I catch everything that goes around - and then it puts me in bed for days rather than having just a mild case. Sometimes it goes away - but right now I have had it 16 years and the Lyme disease - the best they can tell me is that I am in remission.
Long story for such nothing illnesses. Bet you wish you had not asked!!!
Man, Lori. That is tough. I mean, really tough. Knowing that makes me even more amazed when you blow into church looking so sexy. And you do. It's almost scandalous.
Jennifer, sweets - I think you have me confused with someone else!
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